What to do with a domain while the website is being developed.

Is parking a bad idea?

[fischermx]

During the last year I have been aquiring domain names, via drop catching services or newly registered.
While many of these names are with the only purpose of making some PPC money, some of them will definitely have a website on it.

I feel, I think, I guess, that if I park a domain directly using the PPC name servers, like Sedo, google will totally dissapear the domain from their index.
While, since I have done so, if I host the parked pages and additionally to the frames to the parked pages, I setup a proper title, keywords and description, and some nonframe paragraphs of text, the domain will hold in the index and even aquire some PR if I setup some links to it.

Now, is that "healthy" for the domain/website?
Would be better if I just keep the domain name with name servers pointing to a place where there's no domain?

What I fear, is that at the time when I release my website, the domain is gone, banned or simply dissapeared from Google.
Since the development may take half year, I'd like to establish some kind of presence so that Google (and other search engine) are aware of the domain and visit at least once a month, so, when I have my real site, it begins to being indexed immediatly.

What do you think?

[ControlEngineer]

I don't know the effect on Google of a "Parked" domain name. But just in case, perhaps you should spend a day or so putting some useful content on the page. Later, you can convert over to the full site.

[richlowe]

I wouldn't "park" it. I would create a small site, just a few pages, with ads or whatever, to get through the sandbox, build up links and such. I'd put some good content on the site. In my opinion this would be more useful than parking the thing.